THE WOLF'S DEN - Tana dei Lupi II

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The full game is available for download in the . I looked at it yesterday, its well worth the watch, I thought the first 89 minutes were a good display of football and overall a good afternoons work. Its just too bad we thought that was enough and thought we didn't have to concentrate for the entire 90+ minutes of a game. Hopefully this will be a lesson.

I also think, perhaps, that Ranieri's decision to introduce Toni for his debut for Vucinic was a very poor one. Nothing against Luca, this game just wasn't suited to him at all at the time he came on. Vucinic had a very good game, perhaps not in front of goal, but in the second-half in particular he was instrumental in us holding onto the ball, as he often came deep for it, spun his man, won a free or a throw, and relieved the pressure of our defence. This was key for us, especially since Menez was playing like he had a hangover to end all hangovers, and a few others were visibly tiring, and once Vucinic went off we had no one to hold onto the ball and so it was wave after wave of smelly Sardinian attacks, and we eventually crumbled.

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ROMA, I CONVOCATI PER LA GARA CON IL CHIEVO: FUORI TOTTI, MEXES E MENEZ
– pubblicata venerdì 8 gennaio 2010

Ranieri ha diramato l'elenco dei convocati per la gara di domani contro il Chievo all'Olimpico, ore 18: assenti Totti e Mexes.

Andreolli
Baptista
Bertagnoli
Brighi
Burdisso
Cassetti
Cerci
De Rossi
Faty
Juan
Lobont
Marangon
Motta
Perrotta
Pit
Pizarro
Riise
Taddei
Toni
Vucinic

No Totti or Mexes for Chievo as they still haven't recovered from their injures, but more surprisingly, no Menez, who has been left out for his bad attitude after Ranieri gave him a bollockin after training yesterday for his dire performance against Cagliari (Menez apparently stormed off home). Ranieri also confirmed in his that Luca Toni will start this one in place of Whoolio Bumtista.

The line-up for tomorrow, then, essentially picks itself, with saying the only other change may see Motta start ahead of Cassetti:

Probabile formazione (4-2-3-1): J. Sergio; Cassetti (Motta), Burdisso, Juan, Riise; De Rossi, Pizarro; Taddei, Perrotta, Vucinic; Toni.

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Menez got a bit of a roasting from Ranieri today. If Totti had been there perhaps it would have been a spit roasting. It will be interesting to see how he reacts. Perhaps he'll pull his finger out again, but I think the odds must be that he's going to go back to France on loan. I see Ranieri described the formation against Cagliari as the rombo; Taddei certainly played quite deep at times, but it didn't really look like Vooch and Baptista were properly playing up front alongside one another. If that's what they were supposed to be doing, they weren't doing it. I suspect that rombo may be what Ranieri has his eye on, though - with Totti, Toni, Vooch, and Baptista as strikers running the channels. lol.

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